Insurance companies nearly completely control the practice of medicine in this country. They control the costs to patients both insured and uninsured, they control what diagnostic tests the patient's doctor can run for particular conditions (and be paid for), they control via cost what the doctor and his staff and hospital staffs can earn.
Doctors rarely get to practice medicine, they are allowed to do what the insurance companies permit them to do for many patients.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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